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Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [16]

  • Question by: Geoff Pope
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
But they may be moved into inner London?

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [15]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
Part of the problem we have at the moment with the policing at Crosslands is, I would not call it an inability, but there seems to be a reluctance to cross BTP (British Transport Police) and MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) borders, and there are clear, laid out rules and agreements of whose patch is what. Where will these PCSOs fit in? Will they be able to go in and out of the transport nodes? Will they be able to really provide security for Londoners?

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [14]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
Whilst I recognise they are going to be under the Borough Command we are promised by the Metropolitan Police Service, is that the understanding of TfL as well?

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [13]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
You make a very valid point, Mr Mayor. It is not when you are on the bus or on the Tube, it is actually when you get off them at the transport nodes there is some violence and even at bus-stops.

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
Did you get the same advice from the Commissioner of Police for the British Transport Police, or are you talking about the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police?

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [11]

  • Question by: Murad Qureshi
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
It is clear that PCSOs are just as effective as warranted police officers, so we are getting more officers as a result of the expenditure of TfL. Can you just also explain the extent of the funding we are also getting from the Home Office to match this initiative?

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [10]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
As I say, they are very welcome on the transport nodes across London. My one regret is it seems to be on the routes going in and out of London, as against the orbital routes. I would suggest that you actually look at it on a broader and more local need.

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [9]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
You could have afforded to employ warranted police officers that could arrest people. What made you go for PCSOs as against police officers who can arrest people?

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [8]

  • Question by: Sally Hamwee
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
I think we are straying a bit.

Transport Safer Neighbourhood Teams (Supplementary) [7]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
There was a clear proposal, from ourselves, to increase this number from your reserves within Transport for London at the budget round. One gets the impression that if you have not thought of it, it is not a good idea.
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